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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 1/20/2021

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January 20, 2021
4:00
Meg Rowley: Hi everyone, and welcome to the chat.
4:01
AJ: Way too early World Series matchup prediction?
4:02
Meg Rowley: Padres vs. White Sox. Is it the most probable matchup? Perhaps not. Is it a reasonable prediction? Yes. Would I enjoy it very much? Also yes.
4:02
Rob: How is it possible to own a billion dollar business with all the resources at your disposal and still fail miserably at vetting an incredibly important hire. I don’t get it. To be honest, it seems more like they don’t really care rather than they are incompetent.
4:04
Meg Rowley: I don’t think that they don’t care. An organization that doesn’t care doesn’t fire him. I do think that the fact of his hiring along with some of Alderson’s answers suggest that it is a process in need of reforms, first among them doing background with folks who Porter didn’t have an incentive to manage up to.
4:04
BlueJayMatt: No question, just a Jays fan feeling pretty good today. The next few years in Toronto are going to be a lot of fun!

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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 1/13/2020

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January 13, 2021
4:01
Meg Rowley: Hey pals, will get started here in a moment – just wrapping up a call!
4:08
Desperate for a chat: Hurry up, Meg
4:08
Scotty: Meg, hello
4:08
Meg Rowley: Hello am here!
4:09
Meg Rowley: Sorry about that, everyone. Had to chat with Appelman. Let us chat!
4:09
E.L.: If you’re the Giants would you rather have as little money committed to 2022 as possible or would you spend a little now so your lineup isn’t full of holes in a year?

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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 12/23/2020

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December 23, 2020
4:02
Meg Rowley: Hi all, and welcome to the chat. Give me just one moment to run something to the mail box before my carrier comes for the day!
4:04
Meg Rowley: Ok, am back.
4:04
Meg Rowley: Everyone be nice to their mail carriers – they are having a heck of a time.
4:05
Jerry dipoto: When am I making my next move?
4:05
Meg Rowley: Please not today, I have gifts to wrap after this and feel tired.
4:05
Syndergaardengnomes: What is Realmuto’s market now?  With the Mets out of the picture, where do you think he ends up?

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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 12/9/2020

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December 9, 2020
4:00
Meg Rowley: Hi everyone! I’ll be getting started in just a few minutes here – just wrapped recording Effectively Wild and need to grab a seltzer.
4:05
Meg Rowley: And am returned, with a seltzer and some chips. Let’s chat!
4:05
Scotty: Meg…. hello
4:06
Meg Rowley: Hi there!
4:06
dude: Rank these OF for 2021; Arozarna, Teoscar, Carlson, JD Martinez, Laureano, Mountcastle, Winker.  Going to be thinking about who to prioritize as keepers and trade bait soon.
4:07
Meg Rowley: My name is Meg and I am once again going to ask you to direct fantasy questions to our fantasy writers, as they know what they’re talking about when it comes to fantasy, and I decidedly do not.

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Meg Rowley FanGraphs Chat – 12/2/2020

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December 2, 2020
4:00
Chris: You’re back!?!
4:00
Bb: M-Ro is in da house!
4:00
Meg Rowley: Friends, I am indeed returned.
4:01
Meg Rowley: I appreciate your patience with my absence, but I should be able to be back in the mostly regular swing of things from now on.
4:01
Drew: Was the “flood” of coming non-tenders perhaps overestimated? Many of the bigger question marks such as Pham, Gray and Sanchez all seem on their way to tenders, and with the exception of Rosario so far no big profile name has surprised me much
4:02
Meg Rowley: I don’t think we can really gauge it yet. Outside of Rosario, you’re right that no big names have revealed themselves yet, but given the general uptick in non-tenders over the last few pandemic free years, I don’t imagine cost conscious teams are going to be suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of payroll generosity.

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Contract Crowdsourcing 2020-21: The Kolten Wong Ballot

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October 28, 2020

Free agency begins five days after the end of the World Series. As in other recent offseasons, FanGraphs is once again facilitating a contract-crowdsourcing project, the idea being to harness the wisdom of the crowd to better understand and project the 2020-21 free-agent market.

This year, we’ve added a few new features to the ballots based on reader feedback. You now have the option to indicate that a player will only receive a minor-league contract, or won’t receive one at all. We’ve elected to show averages from the 2017-2019 seasons so that this year’s shortened slate doesn’t skew the numbers, but we’ve also included 2020 stats as a point of recent reference. 2020 salary figures represent players’ pre-pandemic contract amounts. Statistics are prorated to full season where noted; the projected WAR figures are from the first cut of the 2021 Steamer600 projections.

Below is a ballot for one of this year’s free agents — in this case, Kolten Wong, whose $12.5 million 2021 club option was declined by the Cardinals today. Read the rest of this entry »


World Series Game 6 Chat

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October 27, 2020
8:06
Tony Wolfe: Get your snacks and drinks in order, everyone. We have our first elimination game of the 2020 World Series.
8:06
Lzfreak: I am simultaneously excited for this game and sad that it might be our last of the year
8:06
mort jelly: lets go
8:06
Kiermaier’s Piercing Green Eyes: Tuesdays are for the Chois. I hope.
8:06
Dodger Fan: Ohmygodohmygodohmgodohmygod
8:06
Guest: I am genuinely not ready for this

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World Series Game 5 Chat

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October 25, 2020
8:02
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Good evening!
8:02
DJ Kitty: Jeff Passan noted Game 4 was among wildest World Series games he’s covered–with a “no (effin’) way” finish–also singling out Game 6, 2011 and Game 7, 2016.

Last night’s game was the only 9 inning game in that short list… can we quantify whether that was indeed the craziest 9 inning WS game?
8:03
Avatar Dan Szymborski: I actually have something on this for the morning.
8:03
CJ: I’m already dreading this series for Kershaw and Dodgers. Instead of reversing the ‘narratives’, game 4 ended up enforcing all of them. Now they have to rely on Kershaw to be super human – again – to reverse the tide and pitch until his arm falls off.
8:03
Avatar Dan Szymborski: Every playoff series has an awkward narrative.
8:03
Dodger Fan: I have no memory of last night. Please, no one tell me what I missed.

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World Series Game 4 Chat

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October 24, 2020
8:00
Brendan Gawlowski: Hello everyone
8:01
Guest: Expectations for Urias tonight?  Is 5 innings too much to expect?
8:02
Brendan Gawlowski: To expect, yes.
8:02
Dodger Fan: It’s time for Dodger (and Ray) Baseball!
8:02
Brendan Gawlowski: Just killing time until the Wiz play tonight
8:02
Dodger Fan: Hi Brendan!

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World Series Game 3 Chat

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October 23, 2020
8:01
Tony Wolfe: Hi everybody, Jay and I are excited to spend Game 3 hanging out with you all. First pitch is in just a few minutes.
8:02
Avatar Jay Jaffe: Good evening and welcome to the chat! I’m popping in for a few minutes here but i’ll have to duck out soon t help put the kiddo to bed.
8:02
Fire Ken Tremendous: Looks like beating Charlie Morton might be the best shot at revenge against the 2017 Astros that the Dodgers will ever get
8:03
Miguel: If Tampa Bay kept a payroll similar to the Dodgers, do you think they would create a better  team than the Dodgers?
8:03
Avatar Jay Jaffe: It’s an odd coincidence that one of those Astros is again facing the Dodgers in the World Series. Morton was the guy who closed out Game 7 with four innings of one-run ball. He obviously wasn’t hitting but he’s said he was aware of the trash can banging
8:04
Avatar Jay Jaffe: https://www.mlb.com/news/charlie-morton-on-astros-sign-stealing

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